Ruffs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RUFFS in dictionary:

VERB:
• RUFF, at bridge, to play a trump card when one cannot follow through
• (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump in a trick which was led in a different suit
• play a trump on (a card in another suit)
NOUN:
• a projecting starched frill worn round the neck, characteristic of Elizabethan and Jacobean costume
• a projecting or conspicuously coloured ring of feathers or hair round the neck of a bird or mammal
• a pigeon of a domestic breed with a ruff of feathers on its neck.
• a North Eurasian wading bird, the male of which has a large variously coloured ruff and ear tufts in the breeding season, used in display.
• an edible marine fish of Australian inshore waters that is related to the Australian salmon.
• an act of ruffing or opportunity to ruff
• one of the basic patterns (rudiments) of drumming, consisting of a single note preceded by either two grace notes played with the other stick (double-stroke ruff or drag) or three grace notes played with alternating sticks (four-stroke ruff).
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to trump

Words related to RUFFS

ruff10 ruffed13 ruffing14

Words that contain RUFFS

gruffs13 scruffs15 dandruffs17 overruffs18 woodruffs19 crossruffs18

How to use RUFFS in a sentence

• It will only be bagging ruffs of another kind, and by silencing their drums you will have conferred an obligation upon humanity.
• Catherine de Medicis had introduced into France the fashion of ruffs, and at the beginning of the fourteenth century, Marie de Medicis that of small collars.
• She was arrayed in her best cap, handsome embroidered black satin dress and apron, lace sleeve ruffs, kerchief, watch and chain.
• The majority of them had greyish-yellow bodies, with yellow beaks and pink ruffs, and they were not at all afraid of me.
• The bier was surrounded by men dressed in the old Venetian costume of black, with ruffs, well-powdered wigs, and swords by their sides.
• Ripe are their ruffs, their cuffs, their beards, their gate, And grave as ripe, like mellow as their faces.
• It is made of lace or cotton, or linen, and is bordered at the neck, the sleeves, and the lower margin with broad ruffs of pleated lace.
• They had hurriedly put on their own best collars and ruffs and to the eyes of the unsophisticated Indian girl they made a brave, though strange, appearance.
• The serjeants-of-arms followed, and then two lines again of gentlemen-pensioners walking, bare-headed, carrying wands, in short cloaks and elaborate ruffs.
• The side aisles are painted with oil portraits, whole families, women and children, all in clerical dress, with long gowns and deep ruffs.

Similar words containing RUFF without suffix s

ruff10 gruff12 ruffe11 gruffs13 gruffy16 ruffed13 ruffes12 ruffin12 ruffle12 ruffly15 scruff14 truffe12 gruffed15 gruffer14 gruffly17 ruffian13 ruffing14 ruffins13 ruffled14 ruffler13 ruffles13 scruffs15 scruffy18 truffes13 truffle13 unruffe13 dandruff16 gruffest15 gruffier15 gruffily18 gruffing16 gruffish18 overruff17 ruffians14 rufflers14 rufflier14 rufflike18 ruffling15 scruffed17 truffled15 truffles14 unruffle14 woodruff18 crossruff17 dandruffs17 dandruffy20 gruffiest16 gruffness16 overruffs18 ruffianed16 ruffianly18 ruffliest15 rufflings16 scruffier17 scruffily20 scruffing18 truffling16 unruffled16 unruffles15 woodruffs19 crossruffs18 humgruffin22 overruffed20 ruffianing17 ruffianish19 ruffianism18 scruffiest18 trufflings17 unruffable18 unruffling17 altoruffled18 crossruffed20 gruffnesses18 humgruffian23 humgruffins23 overruffing21 ruffianisms19 scruffiness19 dandruffier19 antidandruff20 crossruffing21 humgruffians24 dandruffiest20 scruffinesses21 unruffledness20 unrufflednesses22

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